Moving Child Welfare into an Integrated System of
Care TCOM Conference
October 3, 2019 Mary Sheppard, LCSW
California’s Current System of Care
State Oversight
Child Welfare
Behavioral Health
Juvenile Probation
Education
California’s Journey
SB 163 Wraparound
Prop 63 Mental Health Services Act
Katie A. V Bonta
California Partnership for Permanency
Integrated Core Practice Model
Continuum of Care Reform
Continuum of Care Reform
Resource Family Approval
Short Term Residential Therapeutic Programs
Child and Family Teams
Why the CANS for California?
Focus on functional strengths, and actionable needs
Functional Assessment
Current use within child serving systems for BH, FFA, Wraparound, etc.
DHCS selection for all Specialty Mental Health Services
For CANS in Child Welfare
A Perfect Implementation Environment
Beautiful
Reality
An Imperfect Implementation Environment
Legislation Act With Significant Budget Change
Overburdened System
Upcoming Elections w/Administration Changes
CA Integrated Core Practice Model
The Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) is an important factor in implementing teaming and the CANS
Framework for the County level system reform of CCR
Plans for the CANS
TCOM-It’s why we are all here right?
Case Planning
Shared Accountability
Teaming
CFT/CANS Implementation Team
Guides and supports quality statewide Implementation of CFTs and CANS.
Partners
Youth Parents
County Child Welfare County Behavioral Health
Juvenile Probation Dept. of Health Care Services
Associations: CWDA, CBHDA, CPOC Praed Foundation
Challenges to Overcome
One CANS per child
Workforce Development
Reconciling differences in CANS tools
Data collection systems
Next Steps
Support the use of the data from the CANS
AB 2083 Children’s System of Care
Regional collaborative
Continuous Quality Improvement
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